Book description
From one of Australia's most celebrated authors comes a mother-daughter drama exploring the faultlines between love and control.One hundred days. It's no time at all, she tells me. But she's not the one waiting.In a heady whirlwind of independence, lust and defiance, sixteen-year-old Karuna falls pregnant. Not on purpose, but…
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1 author picked One Hundred Days as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
A fractured fairytale recreating the Rapunzel effect with 16 y.o. Karuna trapped in the tower, in this case a high-rise-commission flat, by her mother when she discovers her pregnancy.
This is beautifully written novel about the complicated relationships between mothers and daughters, and especially the fracture of being parented by migrant parents who hold to cultural expectations with their Australian-born offspring, a story that I could relate to on so many levels.
Reading this novel, I felt slightly claustrophobic and lost with Karuna’s mother being so well characterised; the things she was going were almost cruel, but you could feel…
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